January 11, 2013

I passed that along to my wife, who seems interested :) She'd make a nice chair, I think.

Which made me think of this famous Thurber drawing:

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There must be a comical drawing of a woman as a chair or an actual chair in the form of a woman. I looked for furniture in human form, and found some stuff in the general neighborhood — the Dali-inspired lips sofa — and this amused me:

I just received some St. Bernardus for Christmas and I twisted the cage into the standard ice cream chair. It would never win an award but it was amusing how excited everyone was about it. It now resides in the breakfast nook of a doll house..

A suburban Kansas City woman was left sitting in a vinyl recliner for so long that her skin had fused to the chair and she had to be pried out to be taken to a hospital after suffering an apparent stroke, authorities said.

Carol F. Brown's adult son told a state official he had left his 74-year-old mother in the chair for five days without helping her get up to use the bathroom or bathe because he was honoring her wishes to die in her Independence home, according to court documents that described the woman as a "rotting corpse that was still breathing." Brown later died.

The best novelty chairs I ever saw were benches in the shape of a sheep. With alpaca fur or something, black fittings. They looks real and it's a bit of a shock whenever you encounter them passing through the room they're in even though you passed through dozens of times. They get you every time. Especially when you walk through and a cat is having a nap on one of them. The size of a piano bench.

Probably best to have them custom made. Should be easy enough. Lalanne sold his for $110,000 each but a Japanese museum sold a whole flock for $7.5 million. Halfway down here

I did make a chair in pop-up card form one time. It wasn't very good. It's the last page of the polar bear birthday card, a lawn chair at the Northern Polar Circle where penguins are not welcome except as food.